# How to uninstall ELk stack completely on windows 7

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-uninstall-elk-stack-completely-on-windows-7/75437>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 17, 2017, 6:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-uninstall-elk-stack-completely-on-windows-7/75437 "2017-02-17T06:09:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![shubh09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@shubh09](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shubh09)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 6:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-uninstall-elk-stack-completely-on-windows-7/75437/1 "2017-02-17T06:09:20Z")

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Hi Team,

how to uninstall ELk stack completely on windows 7. I want to reinstall ELk but fresh installation.

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![forloop](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/forloop/32/9021_2.png) [@forloop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/forloop)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-uninstall-elk-stack-completely-on-windows-7/75437/2 "2017-02-18T00:23:29Z")

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1. Remove any Windows services that may have been registered, for example, if you installed Elasticsearch as a service using `elasticsearch-service.bat`
2. Remove all directories and files where you unzipped the downloaded zip files and configured data to be located.

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**Author:** ![shubh09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@shubh09](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shubh09)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-uninstall-elk-stack-completely-on-windows-7/75437/3 "2017-02-21T05:58:25Z")

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great..thank you so much for solution

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-uninstall-elk-stack-completely-on-windows-7/75437/4 "2017-03-21T05:58:25Z")

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